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ECO334: Midterm Solutions (Winter 2016)
1. (a) Utility depends on the correct candidate winning. You have no extra information,
you think each candidate is equally likely to be higher quality, and therefore your
vote does not increase the probability of t

ECO334: Problem Set 1
Due February 4th in class
You are encouraged to work in groups, but each student should hand in their own
answers to the problems.
Only question 1 requires knowledge of the normal distribution.
Question 3 may require the applicati

Journal of Economic PerspectivesVolume 22, Number 2Spring 2008 Pages 133154
Competition and Truth in the Market
for News
Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
[T]he best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition
o

Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and
Polarization
Gregory J. Martin and Ali Yurukoglu
December 11, 2015
Abstract
We measure the persuasive effects of slanted news and tastes for like-minded news.
We use cable channel positions as exogenous shifters of cable

NEWS DROUGHTS, NEWS FLOODS,
AND U.S. DISASTER RELIEF
Thomas Eisensee and David Strmberg
This paper studies the influence of mass media on U.S. government response to
approximately 5,000 natural disasters occurring 19682002. These disasters took
around 63,

Handcus for the Grabbing Hand?
Media Capture and Government Accountability
Timothy Besley and Andrea Prat
Department of Economics and STICERD
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
August 4, 2005
Abstract
It has l

Patterns across Democracies
What is a Democracy?
Introduction
Lecture I
Yosh Halberstam
University of Toronto
Information in Democracies
Patterns across Democracies
What is a Democracy?
Outline
1
Patterns across Democracies
2
What is a Democracy?
3
Inform

Voters and Information
Theory
Political Economy
Week 2
Yosh Halberstam
University of Toronto
Sources of Information and IT
Voters and Information
Theory
Sources of Information and IT
Lecture Outline
1
We will investigate the evidence on the relationship b

Eco 334: Social Networks
1. There are voters of two types, L and R, who can interact with one another. Two
random voters of the same type have a probability s of interacting. Likewise two
random voters of different types have a probability d < s of intera

Political Economics Advice

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I wouldn't recommend this course because the professor is not very clear in the lectures, and the outline of the course is very vague. In class quizzes are very unorganized, as well as credit for participation. The professor is not very friendly and isn't helpful.

Course highlights:

The highlight of this class is that there is no final exam.

Hours per week:

0-2 hours

Advice for students:

If you prefer essays over final exams, this course may be alright. Other than that, I would choose a different course with better professor.